Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, c1925

Physical description

Black and White Photograph of a view from St Paul's Cathedral corner looking towards the entrance of Flinders St Station with many pedestrians, a car doing a hook turn, policeman and a on the left hand side, a bus with a route number 5. In the right hand corner is a newspaper stand.



Rod Atkins in an email advised 19/6/2019:



his is a well published photograph.

But this is a cropped photo of the original.

The photo is 1924 - 1925

The bus is private an AEC of the Trak Company



Quote from Wikipedia



The Trak Motor-bus Company was founded in 1923 by the bus pioneer and distinguished naval officer Fred Knight, with three other partners. All four men were former officers in the British Navy. Knight also established the Kintrack Motor-bus Company in January 1924, with buses on the city to Caulfield route commencing in March 1924. Kintrak had the distinction of being the first to employ female bus conductors.

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